Reader's Workshop Update

During Reader's workshop, the children have been working on "reading" familiar fairy tales, particularly The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs. 

Your child has been learning how:

• to use exact character words 
• to use special connecting words to put storybooks pages together 
• readers can point to and read some words they know
• to take turns (see-saw reading) with their partners 

Videos from Reader's Workshop 

In addition, all the letters in the alphabet have been introduced all except the vowels and the letters q and x. 

I've started introducing some sight words to the children.  These are words they will see repeatedly in their reading and use in their writing.   More information about the sight words will be shared with you in December.

Here are the sight words that have been introduced so far:

• I
• a
• me
• is
• the